Tyler Green Modern Art Notes

The Monday Checklist

2.) Critical thoughts (edition of five): Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post on Virginia’s Natural Bridge becoming a state park. Hrag Vartanian in Hyperallergic on the possible relationship between Arshile Gorky and Sochi, Russia. Martin Filler in the New York Review of Books on a brittle Picasso painting. Paul Goldberger in Vanity Fair on the same. Jen Graves in The Stranger on Katinka Bock at the Henry Art Gallery. [Image below, right: Frederic Edwin Church, The Natural Bridge, 1852. Collection of the The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.]

4.) Journalism (edition of seven): Peter Simek in D magazine with a profile of David Bates. Randy Kennedy in the NYT on how the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art isn’t relying on the commercial gallery system to feed artists to an upcoming contemporary survey (see Biennial, Whitney), and how it’s going right to artists themselves. Deborah Vankin in the Los Angeles Times on a major new Hammer exhibition on institutional critique. Steven Litt in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on how Cleveland institutions are working together to preserve WPA-era art. Robin Cembalest in ARTNews on adding artists who are women to Wikipedia. Michael Granberry in the Dallas Morning News on how the Dallas Museum of Art thinks its big, new conservation studio will attract gifts to the museum. Jillian Steinhauer in Hyperallergic on art museums and fair-use law. [Image at top: Bates, Black Water I, 1987.]